Format:
212 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9789089648532
,
9089648534
Series Statement:
Cities and cultures
Content:
"This book examines the crucial role of visual culture (architecture, memorials, photography and film) in shaping Berlin's urban memory culture in both East and West in reponse to the changing political, social and economic organization of the built environment over the past five decades
Content:
As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in many urban environments. This book takes the example of Berlin over the past four decades to chart how the memory culture of the city has responded to the challenges and transformations thrown up by the changing political, social and economic organization of the built environment. The book focuses on the visual culture of the city (architecture, memorials, photography and film). It argues that the recovery of the experience of time is central to the practices of an emergent memory culture in a contemporary 'overexposed' city, whose spatial and temporal boundaries have long since disintegrated
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-203) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789048527045
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Ward, Simon, 1969 - Urban memory and visual culture in Berlin Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016 ISBN 9789048527045
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
,
Art History
Keywords:
Berlin
;
Städtebau
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Geschichte 1957-2012
Author information:
Ward, Simon 1969-
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